[swift-evolution] [Accepted] SE-0133: Rename flatten() to joined()

[Jacob Bandes-Storch]

I'll get right on it.  Thanks to everyone who provided great feedback
during the review!

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 2:53 PM, Chris Lattner via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Proposal Link:
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0133-rename-flatten-to-joined.md
>
> The review of "SE-0133: Rename flatten() to joined()" ran from Active
> review July 24…26. The proposal has been *accepted*.
>
> This proposal had significant positive community feedback for aligning
> common operation names, but raised questions about whether ‘flatten’ was
> term of art, and what it would mean for related operations like ‘flatMap’.
> The core team discussed both sides of this debate, and decided it is best
> to rename ‘flatten’ to ‘joined’, but keep ‘flatMap’ as it is, to preserve
> its term of art.  The core team prefers that it remain a distinct overload
> of joined(separator:) to preserve performance.  It also requests that the
> returned collection types (FlattenCollection and friends) be left as-is for
> now, since they are not names commonly directly referenced, and we’d like
> to keep the change minimal.
>
> Thank you to Jacob Bandes-Storch for driving this discussion forward!
> Time is short, we’d appreciate it if someone could implement this ASAP.
>
> -Chris Lattner
> Review Manager
>
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